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Anti-gun violence activists pressed Michigan lawmakers to fund resources for domestic violence survivors Tuesday during a rally on the Capitol steps.
Ashley Bourget said she’s putting her safety and reputation at risk by taking the stand at her first-degree murder trial. “I’m afraid of retaliation from the mob,” she testified Tuesday as the defence began its case in the Superior Court jury trial now in its fifth week. “I’m also afraid of what people on the […]
Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October 2023 while she was behind bars became evidence at her first-degree murder trial in the death of high-level drug dealer Grant Norton. “Now that I’m […]
A teenager faces charges after a suspect in a beer theft assaulted a St. Thomas police officer, police say. Police were called on Wednesday at about 8:30 p.m. to a convenience store, where an individual took two cases of beer without paying, St. Thomas police said on Thursday. The suspect was located a short distance […]
Ashley Bourget told the police officer she should have been given “a Purple Heart” instead of a first-degree murder charge. “I shouldn’t go to jail for murder. I should get a Purple Heart instead,” she said through loud sobs during her police interview on June 16, 2021, referring to the U.S. military honour. The interview […]
The morning Antony Centeno-So stabbed a friend to death is, he said, “a blur.” “It is all a blur for me because I was regularly sleep deprived and under the influence of crystal meth and fentanyl. This was the lowest time of my life,” he said Thursday at the second day of his sentencing hearing […]
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Michigan has the fourth highest rate of sexual assault in the country. The Women’s Resource Center in Traverse City has been working on this issue for 50 years.
A London man faces drug and weapons charges after officers seized more than $100,000 in drugs and gear, city police said Wednesday. Officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in the 400 block of Thompson Road in the city’s east end Friday arrested a suspect without incident and searched a home, police […]
The Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre is hours away from shutting down the Jordan's Principle program
A Free Press reader says it's time to clean house at the Thames Valley District school board, with "their skewed priorities."